Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1887-03-15
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

promis to cost enough to buy all the cats III
| Christen0om.
LARGE tract of country. including valua'
bic timber land in Montana, viii be opened
by the treaty with the Piegan Indians, by
winch they receive a new reservation ant
sl,"OO,OO0 In ten equal payments.
| AT JOhnstown, n. Y, few days ago,
Alfred steenburR, while at work around thu
watts In a tannery. lifted one of his hands t.
! his neck and scratched the skin. The poison
! took effect almost instantly, and before hi
death, which occurred a few days ago. he wa
! swollen to such an enormous size that hi
! friends were up abe to recognize him.
! JUDGE MORRIS. OF the United States Circuit
| Court sitting in Baltimore. has just sett ed {
long time much vexed question. He decided
| that a whale Is a fish, and allowed a report
for $500 damages against a firm that Gu
croache upon the trade mark of another
| firm by stamping their oil clothing with a
| hsh, while the orig nai goods wers staiape
with a whale.
ISAAC SPRAGUE. q man who has for num-
Der of years past attracted considerable at
tention as freak under the title of the living
SIX eleton, died recently For over a score Of
years his man had been a lrightful example
OF progressive muscular atrOphy. and his
weight was reduced to As pounds. IL may be
an Item of INTEREST," 10 mole that the favorite
FOOD OF this living skeleton WAS pie.
THE results of day at Moute Carlo to the
proprietors OF the Casino and to the princi-
paity of Monaco are tesIi6ed in the boxes.
weighted with gold, carried away before the
very ewes OF the losers. 1t is said that each
table W Ms from t 800 to f2,N00 pounds a day.
VIII CHI shows a gross gain from the eight tables
of firm fl2.0O0 to fl6,000. These sums must
be multiplied by Se5 to show the probable
yearly income. 1885,,
The dam to be built at Quaker Bridge to
ha ha
greatest reservoir In the world as it is to hold
400 100000 gallons. 1t will furnish 100 gall
ions OF water daily to each person in a CITY OF
over 100000 inhabitants and viii put hack
the PROJECT OF drawing water from Lake
Champ plain and the adirondack region for the
next forty or ii 'ty wears. The dam itself will
probably cost SIC, 000,00co
IN his recent address on the Congo Valley
before the Methodist m nisters, in New YORK,
Henry u. Stanley brought out very vividly
the fact that liquor drinking seems TO be
specially fatal in hat hot climate. He cited
the case OF Lieut.. Grant, stalwart locking
mar from Luxembourg, who used q bottle of
Dfahuy freely one night, and by the next
night at was in his grave. Another case
was that OF Scotch engineer, who was a
genius, but who was found dead with bot
Tie OF brandy in his hand.
A LITTLE Swiss canton with sociallstic ter
dencies has Lately adopted a law of free
burial, by which the STATE is the chief patron
and employer Of the under:akers. Two pur-
veyors of cof1ns are elected in each district I;
All orders are sent to one during the first six
months OF the year, and TO the other during
The remaining six months. The collins are
delivered gratuitously. NotwIthst andi & the
oHorts OF the government to be fair. the great
est COMPLIANT and dissa tisfaction have ari- en-
One coffin maker has twice as many orders
as his colleague, and private families are not
satisfied.
j. W. HoLToN. of New Haven, Conn. who
is staying in Buffalo just now. exhibited to a
number of hotel guests a card upon which
had been written, in 1888. by his cousin, Mary
S. Holton. Of Ellington. C onn., In a circular
space no larger than the butt end of an ordi-
nary lead pencil. the o q and new version OF
the Lords PRAYER, with her full name and
the town and State in which she lives 1t
was conceded to be remarkable perfor-
nance, but " hen MIR. Hot ton stated that the
work as executed in fifteen minutes, with
the naked eve. his listeners looked with OPEN
mouthed wonder.
THE rat threatens to be as destructive in
the Neigherries in India as the rabbit is in
Australia. The hills are overrun by them
The fields Of the ryots are houeycombed nv
them. On estates hundreds of tea trees have
been uproOteG by them and bu sbe,s Of c0ffe
may be gathered that has been picked by
them. Growers of potatoes and vegei q b es
nave had their crops destroyed by them and
residents and visitors have experienced what
pest they have become in the houses Ii is
suggested That the breeding of such birds a a
the eagle, the hawk and the owl, which prey
upon rats, should be encouraged. 49,.
A CURIOUS DRAMA on the late unfortunate
King of Bavaria Will shortly be brought out
In Berlin. 1t is five-act play, Louis II. =,
King of Bavaria" reproducing the chief
events OF the sOvereigu's career, and intro
uclnS the queen mother, the present King
N ~ haAr ma l..v.a -
the BaVarian Ministers and chief court Off
cials, hlchard Wagner and DIR. Gudden, The
last- named OF whom persisted with I.onis in
tbe StarnDerger See. AS many of the dram
aus persona are still living, the drama can
not be PRESENTED on hestage. bus W III be read
IN publc in the Berlin Concert Hall.
FRED j. CLARKE, draughtsman at the
L mon Pacific shops, Omaha, dreamed OF q
night not long ago that he had deposited a.
sm all sum in bank at Charlestown, Mass.
many years ago. and that il had never b zen
drawn out. The impression of the dream " A.
retained IL ms mind until morning. and as he
could remember that he had at one time a
small sum on deposit IN the bank, Mr.. srke
wrote t" a FIR end In Boston asking him to In
vestiGate The matter. II was found that The
dream had cen true, and The money. left at
Interest n "A years. had increased 10 ali nj
$500. The necessary preliminarles were gone
through with aud Mr.. Clarke has lust re-
ceiVed the amount named above, which stood
to his credit there all that time.
A PLEASANT piece OF gossip in the capital
arose recently from the meet ng OF Mrs.
Cleveland and Mrs. August Belmont, of New
York. Mrs. Belmont is far-famed in society
in Washington and New York for her grace
and dignity, and her personal ch rms ar.
onderiuily preserved, Mrs. Clrye and h d
heard much Of her, and suspected that thew
we're dlstantly related SO at a reception
before the unfortunate suicide OF Young Bel
mont, the two were brought together. The
two women Of beauty, grace and dignity sat
family trees. Starring with thensel YES as the
branches. and running back " ard over a great
many crooked llmb- they at asst met some
where down IN the trunk, the conjunction be-
ing found in Com. Perry. of historic fam
The tracing Of this relationship was a or, at
pleasure TO the two ladies', and 1t has been
done over and over again by others, to whom
1t is a choice Bit OF gossip.
The distinction between the British Cabinet
and the British Ministry is thus pointed out.
The Cabinet is the outgrowth, by a process
of natural selections of the ancient Priyy
Council of the King. The Privy Council still
exists, but IL never meets as q whole. Its du.
ties aud powers have been completely alb
sorDed by what 10 really select committee
of the Cabinet. The essential distinction me-
tween the Cabinet and the Ministry is that
the Ministry 10 the larger body, comprising
all who have in charge the main admtnlstra
ton OF the government. aud TIE Cabinet il
composed of a sm aler body. selected frem the
Ministry and deli Grating In separate and Sc.
cret session on The most NeiphIy afairs of 4 ho